What is "toward"

Usage examples of "toward".

Everett were just stepping out of the stables when they spied Abigail and Moira strolling toward them, talking and laughing.

With a hasty glance toward the ablution facility, Abe raced after the others, to find them by the locked door.

CHAPTER 26 They Ride the Mountains Toward Goldburg Five days the Fellowship abode at Whiteness, and or ever they departed Clement waged men-at-arms of the lord of the town, besides servants to look to the beasts amongst the mountains, so that what with one, what with another, they entered the gates of the mountains a goodly company of four score and ten.

In the sudden brightness he saw Abraxas, first screaming in terror as the ocean rushed toward him, then pitching with the force of the water.

The guns of those ships, being disposed along the sides, were for the most part able to bear only upon an enemy abreast of them, with a small additional angle of train toward ahead or astern.

Each time he returned to the car, he half expected the girl to be gone, but she sat quietly holding the baby and absently stared toward infinity.

But they had come in on the space drive, and had gotten fairly close before the gravitational field had drained the power from the main coil, and it was not until the space field had broken that they had started to accelerate toward the star.

For instance, as dust and gas from the outer layers of nearby ordinary stars fall toward the event horizon of a black hole, they are accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

Tooe shot through it, flipping over to bounce off the ceiling and accelerating down through the short cabin toward the control section.

At the rate they were accelerating toward the inner surface, the braking needed to stop them would shortly exceed even the 1.

The first eight were spent accelerating, and then the blazing antimatter torches were turned toward the enemy and a deceleration began.

Lowbacca warned that the corvettes coming from Myrkr were accelerating and spreading out, and the half-dozen vessels they had been following were turning toward the cruiser.

Mere minutes after the decoys had completed their burns, six COREs, accelerating at a terrifying rate, suddenly lifted out of orbit toward the decoys.

Lark was flooded with relief when she rounded a bend in the trail and saw Ace Brandon climbing toward her.

Greenbaum, the dolichocephalous Scherer and the acephalous Hunn, had ever done a stroke of productive work or contributed anything toward the common weal.